10 Beautiful Quotes To Quiet Your Mind

“Truth is not a reward for good behaviour, nor a prize for passing some tests. It cannot be brought about. It is the primary, the unborn, the ancient source of all that is. You are eligible because you are. You need not merit truth. It is your own….Stand still, be quiet.”

– Nisargadatta Maharaj

“What you are looking for, is where you are looking from.”

– St Francis of Assissi

“It’s one of the great wonders of life. What will it be like to go to sleep and never wake up? If you think long enough about that it will pose the next question to you. What was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep?”

– Alan Watts

“God, or your essential nature, is not something. Not content. Not form.”

– Eckhart Tolle

“Once we admit our existence, how is it that we do not know the self?”

– Ramana Maharshi

“Care about what others think and you will always be their prisoner.”

– Lao Tzu

“There’s no sunlight in my brain, whose interior remains as dark as a limestone cavern no matter how bright it is outside.”

– Deepak Chopra

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

– Buddha

“I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I’ve been knocking from the inside.”

– Rumi

Now it’s your turn! Please add any quotes in the comment section that always help to quiet your mind.

Oh well, Graham, these things are just so personal to each of us and to our respective dispositions, and I was merely answering your question as to what quietens my mind if I need a little trick to bring that about. I find that if I say it once, yet whilst fully attending to the act of doing so, then it immediately causes the mind to go still, and one-pointed – no that that stillness is necessarily a good thing in itself of course. _/\_